At a time when international organizations view
family farming as the best way to ensure food and land security,
issues related to the arrival of foreign agribusiness investors
in farmland in sub-Saharan Africa need to be examined. In this paper
we focus on the case of the Republic of Congo. First we studied
the country’s agricultural and food situation, which according to
the Congolese government justifies their decision to appeal to private foreign
investors in order to diversify a rent economy based on oil through
agricultural development and hence to cut down the food bill and
attempt to ensure the country’s food security. The second part of
the study examines the land law reform. The arrival of foreign investors
in farmland raises the issues of access to land, the government's
strategy for attracting them and the safety of customary landowners.

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